Re: Bug#735134: perl: rename(1) is ancient
Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> writes:
> Policy says:
> "It is not necessary to explicitly specify build-time relationships on a
> minimal set of packages that are always needed to compile, link and put
> in a Debian package a standard "Hello World!" program written in C or
> C++. The required packages are called build-essential, and an
> informational list can be found in /usr/share/doc/build-essential/list
> (which is contained in the build-essential package).[13]"
> So rename sounds quite a long way than away from that.
True.
> Adding perl and rename to build-essential would save touching about
> 60 source packages if the above analysis is correct. Not sure if that
> is enough to justify such a change to policy?
Well, that's the list affected by rename. I'm dubious that all of the
build dependencies on perl are actually declared, though, given that it's
pulled in by dpkg-dev, and that's much harder to track down.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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